Apache Hadoop Tutorial – The ULTIMATE Guide (PDF Download)

EDITORIAL NOTE: In this post, we feature a comprehensive Apache Hadoop Tutorial. Apache Hadoop is an open-source software framework written…

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MapReduce Design Patterns Implemented in Apache Spark

This blog is a first in a series that discusses some design patterns from the book MapReduce design patterns and…

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Is there a future for Map/Reduce?

Google’s Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat filed the patent request and published the map/reduce paper  10 year ago (2004). According to WikiPedia Doug Cutting…

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Hadoop MapReduce Concepts

What do you mean by Map-Reduce programming? MapReduce is a programming model designed for processing large volumes of data in…

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Can MapReduce solve planning problems?

To solve a planning or optimization problem, some solvers tend to scale out poorly: As the problem has more variables…

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Apache Spark is now a top-level project

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) happily announced that Apache Spark has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level…

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MapReduce Algorithms – Understanding Data Joins Part II

It’s been awhile since I last posted, and like last time I took a big break, I was taking some…

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Run your Hadoop MapReduce job on Amazon EMR

I have posted a while ago how to setup an EMR cluster by using CLI. In this post I will…

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Writing a Hadoop MapReduce task in Java

Although Hadoop Framework itself is created with Java the MapReduce jobs can be written in many different languages. In this…

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